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This is a draft of my final project for EDLD 652, with one of my visualizations shown. This dataset comes from Alison Bacon (Link: https://zenodo.org/record/6993478#.Y9xDpuzMKko). This visualization shows a significant interaction effect between exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trait emotional intelligence influencing self-reported health among a sample of adults. Trait emotional intelligence serves as a protective factor against ACEs on self-reported health. However, as exposure to ACEs gets really high, the protective influences of trait emotional intelligence on self-reported health is reduced. These findings provide more evidence for the need to prevent and reduce exposure to ACEs. Future research might investigate whether increasing emotional intelligence improves self-reported health for individuals exposed to greater numbers of ACEs.